New York, NY, February 29, 2012– 2K Games, Gearbox Software and Valve
today announced an agreement to power all PC versions of the highly
anticipated
Borderlands™ 2 with Steamworks when the game launches on September 18, 2012
in North America and September 21, 2012 internationally. Currently
in development by Gearbox Software,
Borderlands 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed four-player
cooperative shooter-looter that combined intense first-person
mayhemwithrole-playing gameplay.

Borderlands 2 players will enjoy the benefits of Steamworks features, such
as Steam Achievements, downloadable content, auto-updating,
multiplayer matchmaking, Steam Cloud support and more. Customers
who purchase the PC retail version of
Borderlands 2 will also be able to enjoy all the great Steamworks features
as well.
Borderlands 2 features all-new characters and skills, imaginative and
diverse new environments with unique missions and enemies, and more
exciting, fun weapons, equipment and loot than ever before. All of
these features come together in a story that takes players to the
world of Pandora to take down the notorious Handsome Jack and his
corrupt Hyperion Corporation as a solo campaign or with up to four
cooperative players. To pre-order
Borderlands 2, please visit
www.borderlands2.com/preorder.

Borderlands 2 is not yet rated by the ESRB. For more information on
Borderlands 2 please visit
www.borderlands2.com.

2K Games is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two
Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

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